King Abdulaziz University bears the name of the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz, may God rest his soul, and the founding of this university was in the year 1387 AH / 1967 AD as a private university, aiming to spread higher education in the western region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And with
universities in saudi arabia of the loyal people of this country, the dream turned into a reality and the idea came into being, where the members of the preparatory committee had a meeting with King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, may God have mercy on him, expressed all support and support for the idea of the project, and the university’s founding committee was formed under the chairmanship of the late King Faisal and His Excellency the Minister of Education at the time. Hassan bin Abdullah Al-Sheikh.